Europe

UK - Aon Consulting has issued a compliance checklist for pension fund trustees following the Myners' review of institutional investment.

UK - Global Asset Management (GAM) has lured Ansbacher's Keith Guthrie as investment manager within its London-based multi-manager team.

UK - More than a third (37%) of companies within the FTSE 100 propose allowing their shareholders to vote on directors' remuneration in 2002, according to a survey report published this week by company secretarial consultants, Edis-Bates Associates.

UK - Balanced funds have posted a second consecutive year of negative returns for the first time since 1973/74, according to the latest CAPS Pooled Pension Fund survey.

UK - Robin FitzGeorge Balfour has joined fund of fund manager NIB International (NIBi) in London to head up its international institutional sales effort.

DENMARK - Danish pensions administrator SAM Pension will in February tender high yield bond mandates worth EUR110m to be split equally between two managers.

WALES - The £872.6m pension fund for the Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council may seek investment managers and a custodian in March following the outcome of a periodic review.

UK - The TUC will call for new equality laws to give equal pension rights for lesbian and gay workers and to other unmarried partners later this week.

UK - Britannic is looking to recruit four fixed interest investment managers to strengthen the areas of: Swaps and short dated gilts; UK investment grade bonds (with responsibility for specific sectors); UK investment grade bonds (including structured...

UK - The £2.2bn South Yorkshire Pension Fund (SYPF) has hired Standard Life Investments (SLI) as its new commercial property advisor for its £220m segregated real estate portfolio.